Attachment for cooking utensils.



APPLICATION FILED JULY 16,1913.

Patented Apr. 28, 191% I INVENTOR aka/Zea .fll ozz/alalz ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA FLANOGRAPH :0, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES N. SOWDEN, OF GUANTANAMO, CUBA.

ATTACHMENT FOR COOKING UTENSILS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLEs N. Sow- DEN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba, have invented a new and Improved Attachment for Cooking Utensils, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

It is an object of my invention to provide a means to be employed in connection with two saucepans or like utensils of different size, whereby to maintain the same so spaced as to constitute a double cooker, the intervening space between the two vessels being adapted to receive water, and the inner vessel being adapted to contain the material to be cooked.

It is a design of my invention to provide a device of the indicated character adapted to be applied to the handles of the two utensils in a way to space the same and sustain them in fixed relation to each other.

The invention will be particularly eX- plained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device applied to the handles of two utensils, the bodies of the latter being in section; Fig. 2 is a plan view; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4L is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

The invention is applicable to two saucepans A B of unequal size, the one being adapted to be received within the other and leave an intervening space for the reception of water. To the handles a b of the saucepans A B, my improved combined spacing and clamping device is adapted to be allixed in the manner shown in the drawings. The device comprises a yoke 10 for coupling the two handles, the yoke at the opposed sides being forked to provide lateral recesses 11. Arranged in each recess 11 is an upper clamp block 12 and a lower clamp block 13, the opposed faces of which are on rounding lines, or otherwise shaped to conform to the cross sectional shape of the handles a Z), and snugly receive a handle in each pair of said blocks.

On the lower clamp block 13 cars 14 or their equivalent are produced at opposite sides to receive the transverse fastening pin Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 16, 1913.

Patented Apr. 28, 1914.. Serial No. 779,292.

15 of a spring 16, here shown as a wire bent into U-form, the ends being coiled around the pin 15, and the terminals engaged with a lateral surface of the ears 14:, so that the spring exerts a downward pressure on the other clamp block 12. The pressure of the spring 16 is suflicient only to hold the clamp blocks in close relation, and to temporarily retain the attachment in position on the handles when applied to the latter. To positively bind the device in clamping engagement with the handles, set screws 17 are employed, which take into the overhang ing arms 18 of the yoke and engage depressions 19 in the adjacent clamp block.

The handles a b are shown in the present instance as curving upwardly, but not infrequently the handles curve downwardly, for which reason the companion clamp blocks 13 may also have depressions, 20, to receive the ends of the set screws when the blocks are reversed to bring the blocks 13 uppermost.

As will be seen the yoke accommodates the handles a b at opposite sides thereof, the clamp blocks at one side being located also in a higher plane than those at the opposite side. The lateral separation of the clamps promotes convenience in applying the device and the vertical separation of the handles results in the vertical spacing of the bodies of the utensils to form the double cooker.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: Y

1. An attachment for converting a pair of handled utensils into a double cooker, comprising a yoke carrying clamps at opposite sides thereof and in different horizontal planes, the clamps being adapted to receive and clamp the handles of twoutensils.

2. In a device of the character described, clamping elements adapted to receive between them a member to be clamped, a spring acting on one of the clamp elements and exerting a pressure on the other element, and an additional clamping device engaging one of said elements to positively bind the elements in clamping engagement with the article to be clamped.

3. In a device of the character described, a yoke, pairs of clamp blocks carried by the yoke, and adapted to receive between them the article to be clamped, said blocks having depressions in the outer faces thereof, and set screws movable in the yoke into on the other block in the direction of the 19 engagement With adjacent depressions of the first mentioned block, clamp blocks. In testimony whereof I have signed my 4. In a device of the character described, name to this specification in the presence of a yoke, pairs of clamp blocks carried by the two subscribing Witnesses.

yoke, the blocks of'each pair being adapted CHARLES N. SOVDEN. to receive between them the article to be Vitnesses:

clamped, and a spring carried by one of the H. M. VVOLCOTT,

blocks of each pair, and exerting pressure HERMANN Ro'rn.

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